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In Rhinegold, Stephan Grundy brought to life the myths that inspired Wagner's Ring Cyle -- a tale of proud Viking ships, dazzling Valkyries, and roistering mead halls. Now he returns with a breathtaking new novel combining myth and history, magic and adventure...Attila's Treasure.

From out of the icy steppes they came, the fiercest and most feared warriors the world had ever known. At their head was the wily and ferocious Attila of the Huns, and behind him lay a trail of pillage and carnage. To forge peace with the mighty Attila, a young Burgundian prince is sent as a foster son to the merciless warlord. Here young Hagan learns the fighting arts of the Huns as he develops an uneasy relationship with his unpredictable new foster father.

But it is during his first battle that Hagan learns the most important -- and most dangerous -- lesson of all. A gasp away from death, he discovers the pathway to the otherworld -- a knowledge he must guard carefully, for it makes him a dangerous adversary of Attila himself.

Bold, lyrical, replete with the timeless themes of war, brotherhood, sacrifice, and romance, Attila's Treasure is an unforgettable novel.

Editorial Reviews

With a doctorate in Germanic studies, Grundy is certainly well qualified to create historical fantasies from fragments of German folklore. His second romance deals with the most fragmentary body of such material, the tales of Attila the Hun. In Grundy's version, Hagar, a young Burgundian prince, is sent as a hostage to Attila's court. There he meets and becomes friendly with Walhari, a Frankish prince, and learns much of the Hun's ways, both military and shamanistic. This makes him at first a valuable friend to Attila--and then a dangerous enemy. Grundy's scholarship sometimes threatens to overwhelm the narrative, but have no doubt that a large number of readers will keep turning the pages, especially if they enjoyed his take on perhaps the best known German legendary material, Rhinegold (1994). Highly recommended to the historical fantasy audience. Roland Green

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Perhaps because the author of this book is well-versed in history and early Teutonic myth and religion, the "world" the characters inhabit seems extremely real and believeable. The treatment of the religion and philosophical views of the characters is particularly strong.I enjoyed the main character, Hagan, and wished the story would go on longer so we could learn more about him. It would have been nice to see more of his home life, as well.The book reminded me of some of Heinlein's earlier works where a self-reliant man virtuously sticks to duty & uses his common sense, ultimately succeeding in life.It is far, far better than most sword & hero books out there lately.

Grundy has done what good historical fiction should always do--he has transported the reader back in time. This is the sort of book that makes you feel as if you are inside the novel, not just observing the actions but walking alongside the heros.

Any babe in the woods who's taken a 101 medieval history class where they teach Americans to locate the Danube knows the difference between Arians and Aryans. Grundy does, too; yet there are a few spots in the book where he gets carried away by the urwuechsigkeit of the latter word. Years later, I still laugh at his inclusion of Seyfudin in this book (scilicet: Properly Sayf al-Din, but here in pseudo-Turkic spelling means the sword of god and was never heard of east of the Tigris before the seventh century).

Ach, this world would be so lovely if we all wrote Runic and Ogham script and the brown peoples who pester the four corners of the earth stopped bothering us...

This book is a companion to Rhinegold and details the events of the life of Hagan, who is sent to live with Atilla as a foster-hostage. Well written and researched like any of Grundy's novles, you find yourself transported into the time he writes of, and find yourself empathising with the charachters. Hagan, the ultimate introvert, is portraied in a sensitive and understanding way, showing the intense emotion which is felt by those who are often misunderstood, and thought to be without feeling and less than human.The strong history in this book and wonderful descriptions of surroundings show the culture clashes experienced by the charachters within. It's a story of cross-culture friendships, and tolerance and understanding of your friends even when you don't understand or nesicarily agree with practices of your friends. It is also a story of dangerous forbidden love and longing.As one who practices Asatru, norse religion, I was delighted at the realistic and true way in which the religions and magic are portraied. Those who enjoyed this may also be interrested to know that the author of these books is a scholar who has also writen books on Asatru under the penname 'Kveldulf Gundarsson' and his books are "Teutonic Magic" and "Teutonic Religion".

The hunnish people is one of the most intriguing happening of the history of humanity. Being a fan of fiction-literature, I noticed how nonexistent were books of fiction with huns as being the main subject, and I was also surprised to find "Attila's treasure" in a used bookstore. The title caught my attention at first, with two words (Attila and treasure) that I always find interesting. The cover, though, reminded me of some of those bad books intended for young and innocent female teenagers. However, it was being sold by a nice price, and I bought it.I had two surprises. Clearly the author (unknown to me until then) deeply understands the ways of medieval germanic and hunnish culture, or (it also can be possible) he deceived me like no one before. There are detailed and numerous scenes of the behavior of the germanic people in a time where the Huns where threatening the borders of the Roman Empire, and also description of the way romans, goths and huns made alliances and enmities furing the fifth century. I think I got what I wanted, to learn something about the huns in a book of fictions. This is the good surprise.The bad surprise is that I, like most people, I think, thought that there was only one historical Attila, the maddened hunnish warlord that invaded and sacked Rome permiting the goths to divide what was left of the Western Roman Empire among themselves, and I thought this was the Attila whose name was on the title of the book. Through the first hundred pages of the book I felt something was strange, than skipped to the afternote by the author in the end of the book. There my suspicions became true. Grundy's book is not about the historical Attila, it's about one other Attila, fictional, born and living some twenty to thirty years before the real one. However, through the story, by way of historical characters that appear on the book, Grundy gives hints about the coming of the real Attila (there's a character in the book, a strong warrior named Rua, whose wife is told by the shaman of the huns she will give birth to three of the most important sons the hunnish people will ever have; Rua was the name of the father of the real Attila). When I learned this, I thought the book was a deceipt, but I thought better and continued to read because it was a nice written and told story about medieval ways, sword-fighting, magic, etc.I liked Grundy's style and the way he seems to know what he's writing about.Grade 8.2/10